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a golden key can open any door	Sufficient money can accomplish anything.	Rate it: (4.00 / 3 votes)
bridge	A song contained within another song, often demarcated by meter, key, or melody.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
broad strokes	Major features or key points; outline.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
gold ticket	The key to something amazing	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hard yards	The key effort in completing a difficult task	Rate it: (1.00 / 2 votes)
here's the thing	Precedes the key point of an explanation.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
hunt and peck	Form of typing employed by novices in which they search for and strike each and every key one by one on a keyboard, normally using only their index fingers --considered slow and inefficient	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
key down	To relax.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
key in	enter data	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
key into	To grasp; to understand the overall concept of or be acutely aware of the underlying and essential meaning of something; to get it.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
key off	To take as a controlling input datum.	Rate it: (4.33 / 3 votes)
key off	To collide with ; or connect to an object with a degree of force and sound	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
key up	To produce nervous tension in.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
key up	To raise the pitch of.	Rate it: (4.00 / 1 vote)
key up	To raise off its centering, by driving in the keystone forcibly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
latch-key child	A child who returns home from school to an empty house and therefore must unlock/unlatch the exterior door with a key, especially a child of working or absent parent.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
latch-key child	A child who returns home from school to an empty house and therefore must unlock/unlatch the exterior door with a key, especially a child of working or absent parent(s).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
nous prendrons la clef des champs	We shall take the key of the street (i.e., run away).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
skeleton key	A key in a hotel (or used by a thief) that opens all the doors in the premises.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
softly softly	Discreet, low-key, careful.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
under lock and key	Imprisoned with little or no chance of escape.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)